Udstillinger

Her følger den tale som prodekan Birthe Høgh, Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, holdt i forbindelse med åbningen af udstillingen MEDICOTEKNIK onsdag den 27. november 2013: Først mange tak til formand Kim Dremstrup for invitationen – og et stort tillykke til Dansk Medicoteknisk Selskab med 40-årsjubilæet – som fejres med åbningen af Medicinsk Museions udstilling […]

On of the (many) issues when trying to think about object agency (as I’m trying to do at the moment – read more here, here and also here and here) is that it necessitates thinking about what consciousness and intentionality are and that leads down a rabbit hole of philosophical debates spanning decades, multiple traditions […]

“En operationsscene” er titlen på den lille udstilling, som vi åbner i museets receptionslokale i morgen fredag. Ideen er egentlig ikke vores egen. Det hele kom sig af en henvendelse til vores samlingsleder Ion Meyer i forsommeren 2013. DR1ville gerne filme et indslag til udsendelsesrækken “Ved du hvem du er?”

”Skalpel … Krum saks … Sårhage … Sårrenser … Pincet … Suturnål … Suturtråd” [flickr id=”9736879570″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”large” group=”” align=”right”] …. synes det at lyde ud i rummet fra det store 110 x 160 cm operationsbillede med Dr. Th. Rovsing i midten flankeret af sit koncentrerede operationsteam. Det er et betagende livagtigt billede, som […]

In 2010, Thomas and I wrote a paper titled ’Do Things Talk?’, published in Susanne Lehmann-Brauns, Christian Sichau, Helmuth Trischler (eds.), The Exhibition as Product and Generator of Scholarship (the volume is available as a .pdf here). In the paper, we discussed the problems and pitfalls surrounding the still current ‘things that talk’ rhetoric. Our […]

I am currently in the process of formulating some thoughts on objects in collections (read more here and here) which I hope will coalesce into a proposal for an object-oriented exhibition.  While thinking and reading about what happens when objects are put in exhibitions, I came across a useful concept from film theory: The Kuleshov […]

This post was originally published on the official blog of the International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, held in Manchester 22-28 July, as an appetiser for the paper “Understanding social media in STEM museums: the lessons from establishing a bio-hacking laboratory” that I co-authored with Karin Tybjerg and which Karin presented in the […]

A few months ago, I gave a small talk at an internal seminar here at Museion where I presented some thoughts about how to further our engagement with objects and how to take materiality more seriously. Here is the talk: Not just a museum with things, but a museum about thingness – possible strategies for […]

Hillerød Forsyning forbereder et geotermiprojekt for at undersøge undergrunden for geologisk lag med varmt vand. Hvis projektet falder heldigt ud og der er varmt vand nok, kan der produceres varme på en både miljømæssig og økonomisk fordelagtig måde.

The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, and University of Amsterdam, have released a call for applications for a 10 month project exploring the use of Bio-Art as a science communication strategy, potentially leading to a PhD project. The relation between art-science and strategies for public engagement raises some fascinating and underexplored questions about how […]

A couple of months ago we closed our psychiatry gallery on the 2nd floor in the museum’s Academy Building. Instead we have created a smaller room — a hybrid between exhibition, open collection, and study room/inspiration venue on the ground floor — which we call The Psychiatry Room The planning for The Psychiatry Room began […]

I februar 2013 blev Medicinsk Museions populære udstilling fra 2006 om psykiatriens historie lukket og taget ned. Udstillingen forsvinder imidlertid ikke. Tværtimod bliver den etableret under et nyt koncept med planlagt åbning d. 29. maj 2013. Det nye udstillingskoncept centrerer sig om en præsentation og opstilling af Medicinsk Museions samling af genstande fra psykiatriens verden, […]